capability.h

[Justin Mattock]

Hello; I seem to be very confused on how to install fglrx on 2.6.25-*
below is the warnings and errors,

cleaning...
patching 'highmem.h'...
assuming new VMA API since we do have kernel 2.6.x...
def_vma_api_version=-DFGL_LINUX253P1_VMA_API
Assuming default VMAP API
Assuming default munmap API
doing Makefile based build for kernel 2.6.x and higher
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.25-rc6/build
SUBDIRS=/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/kernel/linux-2.6.25-rc6'
CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.o
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c: In function
'KCL_SetPageNoCache':
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:1161: warning:
'change_page_attr' is deprecated (declared at
include/asm/cacheflush.h:28)
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c: In function
'KCL_PosixSecurityCapGetEffectiveVector':
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:1888: error:
implicit declaration of function 'cap_t'
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c: In function
'KCL_PosixSecurityCapSetEffectiveVector':
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:1896: error:
invalid lvalue in assignment
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c: In function
'__ke_check_pci':
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:1951: warning:
'pci_find_slot' is deprecated (declared at include/linux/pci.h:508)
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c: In function
'__ke_pci_find_slot':
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:2840: warning:
'pci_find_slot' is deprecated (declared at include/linux/pci.h:508)
make[2]: *** [/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kernel/linux-2.6.25-rc6'
make: *** [kmod_build] Error 2
build failed with return value 2

Under firegl_public.c it seems the module is requesting a cap_t get
and receive an effective vector.
With the new capability.h file, what is the capability that replaces cap_t?

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Justin P. Mattock
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[se...@hallyn.com]

cap_t() appears to be defined under ifdef __KERNEL__. Which makes
sense since it takes a struct kernel_cap_t :) I don't have the
source code you're compiling, and don't know what would be the "right"
way to fix it, but to get your code to compile I'd just put a
#define cap(x) (x).cap
at the top of the .c files needing it.

-serge